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Big Society quote of the day – C S Lewis


Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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Big Society quote of the day – Mises


Society is cooperation; it is community in action. — Ludwig von Mises, Socialism

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Big Society quote of the day – Richard Cobden


Peace will come to earth when the people have more to do with each other and governments less.

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Big Society quote of the day – Roche


Meaningful freedom has always implied responsibility. — Roche.

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Big Society quote of the day – Karl Popper


I see now more clearly than ever before that even our greatest troubles spring from something that is as admirable and sound as it is dangerous-from our impatience to better the lot of our fellows. I am speaking this evening to explain the systematic cause of our present economic, fiscal and therefore social crisis: excessively cheap money. I don’t doubt that those who have managed our present social system meant well but they have operated a system which is unavoidably […]

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Big Society quote of the day – Ayn Rand


Since it is Sunday and I am off to church, something from Ayn Rand seems excusable: The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. Rand detested religion of course. Me too: it tends to spoil faith.

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Big Society quote of the day – Huerta de Soto


To attempt to coordinate society through coercion is an intellectual error. — Jesús Huerta de Soto

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Big Society quote of the day – Mencken


It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common […]

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Big Society quote of the day – Jose Ortega y Gasset


The first of a series: This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention, the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State; that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long-run sustains, nourishes and impels human destinies. — Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1922, found in the introductory remarks to Our Enemy The State by Albert Jay Nock And yet today, people still can’t figure out the Big Society. We have far to go. I […]

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CentreRight: Surely the Big Society is about more than volunteering?


Yesterday, I received a sneering email from an obviously partisan campaign group which implied that the Big Society is about nothing more than people giving their time. I beg to differ. If society is “the sum of human conditions and activity regarded as a whole functioning interdependently” (Concise OED), then it comprises everything we do. Society includes family, friendship, volunteering, giving and exchanging.  It is a rich and comprehensive tapestry of human relationships which includes business. Read the rest of my article: CentreRight: […]

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